preferred jail management tool

[Valeri Galtsev]

On Tue, January 27, 2015 2:11 pm, Dirk Engling wrote:
> On 27.01.15 21:01, Peter Toth wrote:
>
>> The most important part is jail(8) and properties can be passed to
>> jail(8)
>> very easily.
>>
>> This is the very reason I stopped relying on any rc.d/jai or jail.conf
>> for
>> iocage. It is much easier/simpler to add/modify features when dealing
>> with
>> jail(8) directly.
>
> This means that you need to keep your config in yet another place. I
> think it's much nicer to point a user to a defined location where he
> would find everything that magically creates those jail containers at
> system startup.
>
> I think that rc.d/jail and its config should provide all the means
> necessary to describe the state of the system's jails after booting up.
> If it doesn't, the tool is useless. Could you please explain what
> features are missing in jail.conf for you to not use it? Maybe we can
> layout a path to a better config abstraction.
>

Now I feel ultimately confused. I [still] have all my jail configurations
in /etc/rc.conf, and I can start or stop one of the jails by

/etc/rc.d/jail [start|stop] jailname

If I switch all configurations to /etc/jail.conf, will the same commands
work for starting/stopping jails?

Valeri

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Valeri Galtsev
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
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